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Psyche 16:114-?, 1909.

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114 PSYCHE
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URELLIA MEVARNA Walker (U. ~olaris Loew). Another widely distributed obtained on Mt. Greylock, Mass,, August 8, '07 (Owen Bryant), Kingston, R. I., Oct. 8, '05 (John Barlow). EUARESTA PURA Loew.
This species I have thus far seen only from Massachusetts, with the following records :- Bridgewater, June 27, '03; and Nantucket, July 4, '05 (J. A. Cushman); Cohasset, May 29 (Owen Bryant) Auburndale, Aug. 16; Concord, July 18, '04, and Woods Hole, July 25, '03 (C. W. Johnson). EUARESTA SUBPURA 11. sp.
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Head light yellow, vertex slightly darker than the face, frontal bristles black, occipital bristles yellow; antennae yellow, aristae black, base yellow; eyes dark green or purplish in different lights. Thorax yellow, covered with short light yellow hairs, bristles black; scutellum yellow bearing four black bristles, metanotum brown- ish covered with a yellowish pollen. Abdomen yellow somewhat shining . and covered with procumbent yellow hairs. Marginal bristles of the penultimate seg- ment black, middle of the first and second segments more or less brownish, terminal segment dark brown, ovipositor reddish. Legs yellow with light yellow hairs; halteres light yellow. Wings whitish hyaline, the yellow veins of the basal half giving that portion a yellowish tinge, the markings and reticulations are similar to those of E. pura Loew.
Length, 5 mm.
Two specimens collected by the writer at Wildwood, N. J., August 12, 1902, in sweeping over sea burweed (Xanthwm. eehinatum). One specimen was also received
from Professor John B. Smith, collected at Anglesea, N. J., July 12. i
CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS IN BOSTON.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Affiliated Societies, including the Entomological Society of America and the Association of Economic Entomologists, will meet in Boston during Convocation Week, December 27-31, 1909. Visiting Entomologists will be entertained by the Cambridge Entomo- logical Club at a smoker to be given on some evening during the week. An exhibi- tion, illustrative of recent progress in Entomology, is to be held in connection with these meetings. More detailed announcements will appear in the December num- ber of PSYCHE.




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